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    "title" : "The New Vote.gov: Leaner, Faster and Multi-Lingual |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"The New Vote.gov: Leaner, Faster and Multi-Lingual","summary" : "One year ago this week, we launched vote.gov (also known as vote.usa.gov). It’s a concise and simple site with a single mission: direct citizens through the voter registration process as quickly as possible. It was created by a joint team of USA.gov staffers and Presidential Innovation Fellows, all of whom work within the General Services","date" : "2016-09-28T11:00:27-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"yoz-grahame" : "Yoz Grahame"},"topics" : {
        
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      "filepath" :"news/2016/09/2016-09-28-the-new-vote-gov-leaner-faster-and-multi-lingual.md",
      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/09/2016-09-28-the-new-vote-gov-leaner-faster-and-multi-lingual.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/09/2016-09-28-the-new-vote-gov-leaner-faster-and-multi-lingual.md","slug" : "the-new-vote-gov-leaner-faster-and-multi-lingual","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/09/28/the-new-vote-gov-leaner-faster-and-multi-lingual/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/09/23/usa-gov-launches-vote-usa-gov-to-help-citizens-register-and-connect-with-states/\"\u003eOne year ago this week\u003c/a\u003e, we launched \u003ca href=\"https://vote.gov/\"\u003evote.gov\u003c/a\u003e (also known as vote.usa.gov). It’s a concise and simple site with a single mission: direct citizens through the voter registration process as quickly as possible. It was created by a joint team of \u003ca href=\"https://www.usa.gov/\"\u003eUSA.gov\u003c/a\u003e staffers and \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows\"\u003ePresidential Innovation Fellows\u003c/a\u003e, all of whom work within the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gsa.gov/\"\u003eGeneral Services Administration\u003c/a\u003e (GSA).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDid it work? Yes. In fact, it worked so well that Facebook made it the destination for their 2016 voter registration drive. Last Friday, it received over five million user visits, among the highest count ever recorded by a U.S. government website in a single day.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2016/09/600-x-544-new-2016-vote.gov-screenshot.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Screen capture of the new vote.gov homepage.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was a good site, but there was room for improvement. The site was only available in English.The pages for individual states did not have URLs, so it was hard to share them with other people. We weren’t sure if the front page really needed to be that long.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, earlier this year, USA.gov worked together with \u003ca href=\"https://18f.gsa.gov/\"\u003e18F\u003c/a\u003e to research, prototype, test, and implement an improved version of vote.gov.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, on National Voter Registration Day, we’re launching this new version.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe changes are small, but significant:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe whole site is now \u003ca href=\"https://vote.gov/es/\"\u003eavailable in Spanish\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThanks to usability testing and analytics, we realised we could remove much of the front page content. The site entrance is now considerably leaner and faster: the total data that a user has to download is less than one-third of the previous amount.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe visual design has been updated, and is now based on another USAGov \u0026amp; 18F collaboration: the \u003ca href=\"https://standards.usa.gov/\"\u003eUS Web Design Standards\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe site is fully functional without JavaScript.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll parts of the site are reachable via URLs, which allows people to share individual state pages directly in  either English or Spanish.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe largest change will be totally invisible to most users: we’ve switched from a bespoke single HTML page to a multi-page site deployed on 18F’s \u003ca href=\"https://cloud.gov/\"\u003ecloud.gov\u003c/a\u003e application platform. This gives our development process more flexibility, and made the above improvements much easier to implement. If this is the aspect that most interests you, feel free to take a look at the \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/18F/vote-gov/\"\u003esource code\u003c/a\u003e. As always with our open source projects: code contributions are welcome!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, please share the site. Voting is a great privilege of citizenship. We want everyone who can to register to vote.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYoz Grahame is a software developer at \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/124182\"\u003e18F\u003c/a\u003e, part of the GSA’s new \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/25729\"\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Transformation Service\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"https://blog.usa.gov/\"\u003eUSAgov blog\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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